KAL is an ELECTRONIC NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION (e-NGO) and has been initiated on independent volunteering bases as a global open network since 1993. Members with skills in linguistic, and information technology are sharing their thoughts around Kurdish linguistic issues. They seek information, solutions and focus on a future for better understanding of the Kurdish language. KAL is a community of people who has responded to this crucial question of our society.

"As I have noted before, the Kurdish nation will converge via a unified Kurdish language. The prerequisite of a unified Kurdish language is a unified Kurdish alphabet. This means that the Kurdish scholars and the literati need to develop a writing system that allows all speakers hailing from every Kurdish dialect to use that writing system."

In KAL's series of historical documents this hand written letter by Mustafa Barzani is presented. The letter was written in the beginning of 1955.

KAL aims to show the style and practices in writing Kurdish. This will allow for an overview of historical changes to Kurdish writing in the eye of its legendary figures. Please join to add your comment.

ANKARA, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Turkey has begun restoring names of Kurdish villages and is considering allowing religious sermons to be made in Kurdish as part of reforms to answer the grievances of the ethnic minority and advance its EU candidacy.

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said his government will push democratic reforms to address decades-old grievances from the Kurdish population and help end a 25-year conflict between the state and separatist guerrillas.

Erbil, or Hawler as the locals call it, is where the Kurdistan Regional Government is located. Here the Kurdish that holds sway is Sorani, a dialect also spoken by the region’s majority. But a sizeable minority, mainly in the northwest, speaks Bahdinani, or Kirmanji, a dialect also spoken by Turkey’s 15 million plus Kurds, giving this dialect a significant linguistic edge in the greater Kurdistan.

By state permission, Kurdish theater group Destar has performed the first Kurdish play on the stage at Van State Theater. 'State Theaters General Director Lemi Bilgin’s recent statement that theaters are open to Kurdish plays is in effect,' says playwright Berfin Zenderlioğlu

By state permission, and with a little guile, Kurdish theater group Destar staged a Kurdish play at the Van State Theater last week.

Kurdish Studies was established in Russia as a special branch of academic Oriental Studies by the activity of a number of forceful scholars such as V.Dittel, V.A.Zhukovsky, V.V.Bartold, V.V.Veliaminov-Zernov, P.Lerkh, A.Zhaba, V.F.Minorsky, and V.P.Nikitin. However, the main role in the organizing and development of Kurdish Studies was played by I.A.Orbeli, the true father of the St Petersburg tradition of Kurdish Studies, the author of valuable papers on the history of the culture, literature, language and folklore of the Kurds.

This study is a description of the Kurdish of the city of Sulaimaniya, Iraq. Kurdish is a member of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Kurdish dialects cover an area embracing parts of eastern Turkey, Soviet Armenia, northern Syria, northern Iraq, and western Iran, as well as Khorasan in Iran. It is difficult to obtain reliable figures on the total Kurdish population in the Near East, estimate ranging from 1.5 to 9 million.

My article written some twenty years ago had a twofold purpose: to insist on the importance of a systematic study of the toponymy of Persia and, by way of example, to examine the Mongolian stratum of placenames in the southernmost area of the Persian province of Azarbayjan.